Opera has introduced Paste Protect, a security feature designed to block ClickFix-style attacks that trick users into executing malicious commands through social engineering.
ClickFix is a widely used technique where victims are deceived into copying dangerous code or commands to the clipboard and then executing them in the command-line interface.
Typically, the ruse is a verification process or some form of problem-fixing instructions. However, they are only designed to trick the target into performing dangerous actions.
The commands execute with the user’s privileges, bypassing existing security defenses, and many times lead to the delivery of information-stealer malware.
The method is to popular with threat actors that Apple recently introduced a security feature designed specifically to detect risky pastes in the Terminal and block them before alerting the user.
